The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-13
NEWS NOTES.

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Ex-Secretary Manning and family ar.
rived at New York q few days ago on the
steamer Baltic, much improved in health.
Mrs. Pinkerton, wife OF the Rev. T. W.
| Pinkerton, pastor Of the Christian church,
Decatur, ILL.,, poured gasolene into coffee
pot, by mistake, the other morning, and set
the pot on an oil stove. The gasolene ex-
ploded, and Harry Pinkerton, aged eleven,
was fatally burned. Mr.. and Mrs. Pinker-
ton were badly blistered in trying to save
the boy.
Gas from an artesian well, at Groton,
Oak, broke out two blocks from the wells
mouth, and flowed quite stream. The
same causes that made this outbreak made
q crack in the earth between the points. A
sixteen-foot pole failed to reach the bot
tom. The crack runs under the Episcopal
church, and may cause considerable dam
age.
The body of George r. Parks, the actor,
who disappeared June /, was found in the
harbor, at Boston, the other day. Mr.
Parks is believed to have committed suicide.
William f. Sheridan, the well-known
tragedien, died in Sidney, Australia, May
II. He had been in poor health for some
months, and his demise was not unlocked
for.
The monument erected by the New York
Press Club at Cypress Hill Cemetery, was
dedicated last Sunday in the presence OF
over a thousand journalists and their
friends.
The Porte has asked that the proposed
Anglo-Turkish convention be modified so
as TO give Turkey the exclusive right to
send troops to Egypt in event of revolt or
invasion. Lord Salisbury has declined TO
entertain the suggestion.
The Consul General at Havana has re-
ported to the State Department that Publa,
the American citizen imprisoned at that
place, will be tried in the Superior Court
during the present month, the trial being
fastened on account of the intercession of
this government.
Brigadler General Charles T. Walcott
died suddenly the other night, off Goose
berry Island, near Boston. With his son
and two others he rowed down to Salem
harbor in the evening and it is thought that
he ruptured blood vessel General Wal
colt was fifty years of age.
The Pope's gift to Queen Victoria on the
occasion Of her jubilee consists of mosaic
reproduction OF Raphaers fresco, repre-
senting an allegorical figure of poetry. The
work was executed in the Vatican. Mon
signor Scilla will convey the gift to En-
gland, and he will be accompanied by Faith
ers Zalcsca and Meri, two young priests of
the Ecclesiastical Academy, who the Pope
will, in honor of the occasion, create
Bishops.
Russia's occupation of Kerki, on the
Oxus, is regarded in Afghanistan as an in
vasion Of Afghan soil and as a declaration
of war. The Ameer is greatly alarmed.
He assumed personal command of the
troops engaged in attempting to suppress
the rebellious Ghilzais and is making
strenuous efforts to restore internal tran
guilty in order TO cope with the foreign in
vader.
The contract for part Of the work of
draining the valley of Mexico is reported
to have been awarded to syndicate Of
Cleveland, o., capitalists, known as the
Bucyrus Construction Company. The gov
eminent itself proposes to dig tunnel I'M
der the mountain, on which work was be-
gun during the reign of Macmillan. Amer
lean engineers predict that as soon as the
Cleveland people show how effective their
modern excavators are still larger part of
the work will be entrusted to them.
Brigadier General Wesley Merritt has
been relieved of the comuy July l and as.
Point Mnitae command OF the Department
81 me Missouri, succeeding Brigadier Gen
eral Wilcox. General j. c. Parke, corps of
engineers, has been assigned to the SUPER
lntendency of the Military Academy. He
is now In Europe, and after General Mer-
ritts relief Lieutenant Colonel Hasbrouck,
the present commander of cadets, will dis.
charge the duties Of superintendent until
General Parke's return.
The total value of the principal articles
OF provisions exported from the United
states during May past, was 1854, 255,
against s6,629, $50 in May, 1886.
An immense pine forest at Canaan, in the
gironde district Of the Province OF Area.
hon, France, containing $1,000 acres. has
been destroyed by fire.
The Canada Chemical Manufacturing
works, London. Ont, were completely de
stroyed by fire the other night. Loss S45,.
600; partially insured.
Hon. John ID. Long was elected president
OF the Pilgrim Society, in place Of j. Henry
Stlckney, OF Baltimore, who resigned and
was chosen as vice president.
Inc priests OF the Golden Temple al
Amitsir, in the Paniaub, ceased to offer
the customary prayer for Dhulcep Singh
when they heard he was intriguing with
Russia against India,
The committee in charge OF the petition |
TO Rome for restoration of DR.. McGlynn TO |
the passionate of st. Stephens church. an. |
nounce that the movement has been aband- |
oned at DR.. McGlynn's request
Bishop Potter has issued pastoral letter
10 the clergy and people Of the New York
Episcopal diocese, urging their co-opera.
lion in securing the erection of the pro.
posed great Cathedral in New York city.
The Earl of Aberdeen in an interview
With San Francisco reporter, said that the
IRISH are loyal people and are only re-
exiting what they deem injustice. To
emedy the trouble the cause must be re.
moved. Good government can be obtained
My by the consent and good viii of the
'eople governed.
John Russell Young, ex-Ministrr Ia
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